Hunting the Beagle

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Hunting the Beagle: Episode 5

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Dr Robert Prescott sends for analysis of the ship they found buried in the Essex marshes.

Dr Robert Prescott sends for analysis of the ship they found buried in the Essex marshes. Could it be the HMS Beagle? From 2008.

Dr Robert Prescott has sent for analysis of the samples from the ship they found buried in the Essex marshes. 

Could it be the HMS Beagle?

Producer: Jeremy Grange

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2008.

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Dr Robert Prescott searches for the final resting place of Charles Darwin's ship.

Dr Robert Prescott searches for the final resting place of the ship aboard which Charles Darwin began to formulate the ideas which would eventually become his theory of evolution.

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